Political ads on TechRepublic

Why do we have to see political ads when reading technical items on TechRepublic? Not only are they ridiculous, they slow the heck out of the website. I don’t really want to see pro or negative ads for any of the 2 dominate parties, nor any of the 3rd parties. I know they make money for TechRepublic, but running a banner add and then a similar ad to the right side, both active with scrolling text is a bit much. There are enough political ads on TV and radio, let alone any of the news websites. Can’t we at least escape them here? How about a text only site for those who want a faster viewing of tech articles? Tech ads were annoying enough, but the political ads are over the top!